Appendix ii, Glossary of useful terms – Nisus InfoClick User Manual
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Appendix II
Glossary of Useful Terms
This document uses a couple of terms that either may not be familiar to the “casual” user or are
used in a technical way. We offer a small glossary of terms here . If you encounter other words that
you believe should be included, please send them to
Boolean
Named for George Boole, who developed a general method of symbolic reasoning
that lead to the idea that “on/off” (“true/false”, “yes/no”, “1 or 0”) circuits with
relays could solve certain algebraic problems. This is the concept that supports
the possibility of digital computers.
Selector
InfoClick search terms. These are words and other useful criteria which you pick
to narrow down your search. Selectors can be all kinds of things: words, email
addresses, parts of a file path, URLs, numbers, etc. Selectors are organized into
logical groups.